The love affair

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The Love Affair, 1968

The Love Affair was a British pop band that, in addition to stylistically similar groups such as Amen Corner , The Marmalade and The Tremeloes, celebrated some successes in the European music charts at the end of the 1960s .

Act

In 1966, Steve Ellis (born April 7, 1950, vocals), Maurice Bacon (born January 26, 1952, drums), Morgan Fisher (born January 1, 1950, keyboard), Ian Miller (guitar) and Warwick Rose (bass) founded the Band "Soul Survivors". Since there was already an American band of the same name, they changed their name to "The Love Affair". The line-up changed several times over the years. The temporary band members included Peter Bardens (keyboard).

The first single She Smiled Sweetly , a song by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards , was released in early 1967, but it was a flop. Everlasting Love was released in late 1967 and rose to number 1 on the UK charts . The song had previously been published in the United States by Robert Knight . Several other hits followed such as A Day Without Love or Rainbow Valley (both 1968) and Bringing On Back The Good Times (1969). It wasn't until many years later that producer Mike Smith admitted that apart from lead singer Steve Ellis, no other member “was anywhere near the studio”. They were just too bad for him, and so he put studio musicians at the side of the singer.

In 1970 the band broke up again. Steve Ellis first founded the band "Ellis" and then sang in "The Widowmakers". After 1991 he played as "Steve Ellis's Love Affair".

Discography

Albums

  • 1967: The Everlasting Love Affair
  • 1971: New Day

Compilations

  • 1991: Everlasting Hits
  • 2001: The Best of the Good Times
  • 2002: Singles A's and B’s

Singles

year Title
album 		Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH UK UKTemplate: chart table / maintenance / charts non-existent
1967 Everlasting Love DE12 (4 weeks)
DE 		AT12 (8 weeks)
AT 		CH6 (3 weeks)
CH 		UK1 (12 weeks)
UK
1968 Rainbow Valley DE37 (1 week)
DE 		- - UK5 (13 weeks)
UK
A day without love - AT17 (4 weeks)
AT 		- UK6 (12 weeks)
UK
1969 One Road - - - UK16 (9 weeks)
UK
Bringing on Back the Good Times - - - UK9 (10 weeks)
UK

gray hatching : no chart data available for this year

More singles

  • 1967: She Smiled Sweetly
  • 1969: Baby I Know
  • 1970: Lincoln County
  • 1970: Speak of Peace, Sing of Joy
  • 1971: Wake Me I Am Dreaming
  • 1971: Help (Get Me Some Help)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Frank Laufenbergs Hit-Lexikon des Rock und Pop, Volume 1, 2002, p. 832.
  2. ↑ Chart sources: DE AT CH UK

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